Chapter 61: Breakout
Yun Zheng was wearing earplugs, the sound insulation effect of these earbuds was very good, he only felt that his heart was clouded, a strong hot wind came to his face, blowing the cloak backwards, and the restless four hooves of the big green horse under the crotch seemed to feel that a catastrophe was coming.
The first to shatter was the siege vehicle, the thick log spun and raced backwards, Yun Zheng watched as a log was inserted into the belly of an elephant, flying the behemoth more than ten feet away and falling heavily to the ground, dust mixed with blood splashing everywhere.
The entire gate suddenly arched, and then shattered into countless small pieces, and the walls on both sides cracked, and then collapsed with a bang. The huge alarm bell on the city gate flew into the city from afar, like a small bell thrown by a naughty boy.
The dark red flames were unrestrained by the towers, and suddenly expanded outward, and then turned into a black smoke that soared upward.
The monkey and the Hanniu guards fluttered on the big shield above Yun Zheng's head and fell countless small stones, hitting them with a fluffy sound, Yun Zheng frowned, looking at the subordinates who were injured by the flying stones, they didn't know what to say, every time they did the explosion test, they always didn't calculate the amount of medicine, Peng Jiu was afraid that this time he added gunpowder privately.
However, at this time, he didn't have time to worry about Peng Jiu, so he pulled out the long sword on his waist and pointed at Shenglong City and shouted: "Wu Shengjun, advance!" The monkey and Han Niu put away their shields and roared loudly together: "Wusheng army advances!" ”
Lang Tan stood at the front with a shield, pointed his knife at the huge gap in front of him and hissed wildly, leading his own headquarters to kill the Suzaku Gate first.
The siege battle Wusheng army has been practiced countless times before, and the various departments know very well what they should do, and the Jiaozhi people have been frightened by the explosion like Tianwei, and they looked at the Song army that poured into the gap like a tide, and then was cut down by the Song army like a wood.
Lang Tan led his subordinates to rush forward, as long as they encountered resistance, they would be solved immediately, the houses on both sides of the road would have a gunpowder bomb thrown into it regardless of whether there was anyone or not, Peng Jiu, who was covered in mud, was on his left flank, and Chu Dazhi led his subordinates to become his right flank. The three teams alternated with each other, their target was the inner city of Thang Long City, and as the first wave of attacking troops, all they had to do was keep advancing. Completely crush the resistance in the city.
After they had stormed the walls, the elephants and mules dragged the scattered boulders out of the city, where a road wide enough for the cavalry to pour into the city was needed.
The participants who finally woke up threw away their weapons and desperately burrowed into the surrounding houses, they were unwilling to continue fighting such a powerful enemy.
Standing on a high place, Li Dezheng was covered in dust, and he couldn't figure out what force completely destroyed the Thang Long City that he had built with great effort to build the treasury money and grain, and a huge bronze bell fell under the tall building, smashing one of his favorite rockeries.
This blow completely smashed Li Dezheng's mind to hold on to Thang Long City, looking at the bloodstains on the ground, the sorrow in his heart had nowhere to tell, that general was a veteran who had followed him for decades. is not a coward, the reason why he wants to break through by himself is actually to see that something is wrong, and he is in a rage......
If the Song army can blow up the outer city, it can then blow up the inner city. There is also the Imperial Palace, the tall walls of which cannot be an obstacle to them......
"Gather the Imperial Forest, we will break through from the east gate!" Li Dezheng ordered with difficulty. Standing in this high-rise building in the palace, you can clearly see that the Song army has continuously entered Thang Long City, and if you hesitate any longer, you may not be able to leave.
A eunuch said with a sharp voice: "King, what about the concubines in the palace?" ”
"Take away the princess. Ordered the concubine to commit suicide and observe the festival! Li Dezheng ordered the samurai beside him with red eyes.
So the pleading and screaming of women and women sounded in the palace, Li Dezheng didn't seem to hear anything, kicked away a concubine who was holding his leg and pleading, and walked indifferently to the outside of the main hall, and there was a cavalry outside the main hall for his own use.
As he was putting his ranks in order, he heard another loud bang, which was a signal that the inner city had been blown open. The inner city is not as tall as the outer city, and it is not difficult to be blown apart.
Li Dezheng looked at the young prince and princess on the soldier's back, drew his long sword, and roared angrily: "Let's go, we will be with the prince, and then we will break these thieves into pieces!" ”
The gates of the palace were wide open. Three thousand black-clothed warriors viciously rushed towards the Song army who had just entered the inner city, these people were the elite of the Jiaozhi army, and some of the people with high martial arts skills even climbed to the roof, where they swept like flying, and jumped from the roof with a strange scream when they saw the Song army, not caring about their own life and death.
Lang Tan was stabbed three times before killing a black warrior, sat on the ground panting and looked at these black-clothed warriors who were desperately attacking, stood up with difficulty and threw out a gunpowder bullet that blew up the three black-clothed warriors and shouted: "Formation, formation." "Hundreds of subordinates were killed in a short period of time, which made Lang Tan very angry, his advantage was originally in crossbow arrows and gunpowder bullets, and fighting with the enemy was really the stupidest way, but fortunately, the storage of crossbow arrows and gunpowder bullets stopped the tide of attack of these black-clothed warriors, giving him precious time to form a formation.
As long as the Wusheng army has formed a good military formation, it is not afraid of any strong samurai, no matter how strong these black-clothed samurai are, there is no room for any ability to show in the dense rain of crossbow arrows, as for those swordsmen who roll over with rattan cards against the ground, a gunpowder bullet can blow them apart.
When the hundred and ten battle formations were gradually established, those black-clothed warriors could no longer take advantage, but they still stubbornly guarded the gate of the imperial city, and did not allow the martial arts army to enter from here.
A large group of cavalry rumbled from the crowd to the east, Lang Tan glanced at it, and took out a red signal flare from his waist and inserted it into the ground and lit it, this large signal flare flew into the air with a stream of red smoke, and finally exploded in the sky, and the entire Thang Long City could be seen clearly.
Yun Zheng looked up at the red signal flare and said to Su Xun with a smile: "Li Dezheng ran away, just like we thought, he ran to the east, he wanted to meet his crown prince Li Rizun." ”
"Under the situation of weak lords and strong ministers, Li Dezheng's life will not be easy, this is how Tang Xuanzong went to his son back then, but he was made the emperor by his son, do you think Li Rizun will do this?" Su Xun asked with a smile.
"I think Li Rizun will kill his father and become the emperor himself, but I don't plan to let this kind of human tragedy happen, Li Dezheng is better to accompany me to Dongbianliang City!
Are you going to see the excitement? This is a historic moment, the drama of a generation of emperors at the end of the road is not something you can see casually, every time I think of Farewell My Concubine, what about you? ”
Su Xun nodded and said: "Then go and see, since Li Dezheng has begun to escape, this means that the military spirit in the city has been dispersed, and there should be nothing wrong."
If you want to see it, go early, you see, people have broken through the outer city again! ”
Yun Zheng looked at the red pillar of smoke rising above the outer city and said with a smile: "Don't say it, Li Dezheng's army can break through the defense of the outer city that is waiting for the battle, it is really not to be underestimated, I just don't know how much it cost to slip out of the hands of Peng Jiu's greedy ghost." ”
The two of them talked, gently kicked the horse's belly and ran to the east under the support of the guards, the pace of the big green horse was very light and vigorous, constantly avoiding the corpses and rubble on the ground, and it didn't take much effort to come to the outer city, Peng Jiu was pointing at the sky and scolding the earth, by the way reprimanding his subordinates, the ground was full of cavalry corpses in red armor, and the corpses of war horses killed in battle, some of the corpses were still carrying gorgeously dressed little boys and little girls on their backs, under the dense rain of arrows, there were no survivors, there were so many corpses, Even two half-human-high corpse walls were built on both sides of the road, and the hooves of the big green horse were "kicking and tapping" in a pool of blood.
Yun Zheng beat his horse through the outer city, and did not explain the reason for the defeat to Peng Jiu at all, a tall middle finger was already very revealing, Peng Jiu, who had just settled down, took off his helmet and fell to the ground, directing his subordinates to continue to search for the enemy in the outer city.
Li Dezheng's heart was bleeding, when he highlighted the imperial city, most of the black-clothed warriors had been killed and wounded, and there were almost no warriors who could follow all the way to the outer city, when he rushed out of the outer city, the red-armored knight used his own flesh and blood to build two walls of flesh and blood for himself to escape, listening to the screams of the knight and his young son and daughter before they died, his heart was like a knife.
Four days ago, I was still watching the singing and dancing of beauties in Hanyuan Palace, accepting tribute from the Quartet tribes, celebrating my 60th birthday, and celebrating the peace of the country and the people of Jiaozhi. Three days ago, he was ambitious to rely on 2,000 warriors to defeat the cowardly cavalry of the Song army, two days ago he was still thinking about relying on the fortified city to wait for reinforcements, and a day ago he was thinking that as long as the whole people mobilized, they would grind the Song army to death under Thang Long City with their flesh and blood......
The situation changed too quickly, too urgently, from the discovery that the Song army was not a bad breed to the discovery that the Song army was unstoppable, there were only four short days, as the emperor and commander, he did not believe that there would be no obstacles in front of him, so after rushing out of the outer city, he immediately drew his spear and prepared to fight to the death.
When the war horse protruded from the city, his heart continued to sink, and there was a black-armored cavalry in front of him, the number was not much, only eight hundred, but the general led by the horizontal spear immediately blocked the front, the red tassel on the hat and helmet was blown by the wind and hunted, and the scarlet cloak was fluttering like a flag.
The general led by Li Dezheng saw Li Dezheng rushing out of the city gate, took off his cloak and threw it aside, and the knights under his command did the same, and the steel knife was drawn out of the scabbard, making a tooth-aching sound, these people were like hungry wolves who saw the fat lamb, although they stood a hundred feet away, and the momentum was suffocating.
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